Quotes About Hope

Les hommes désespèrent stupidement de l'amour - j'en ai désespéré - ils vivent asservis à cette idée que l'amour est toujours derrière eux, jamais devant eux : les siècles passés, le mensonge de l'oubli à vingt ans. Ils supportent, ils s'aguerrissent à admettre surtout que l'amour ne soit pas pour eux, avec son cortège de clartés, ce regard sur le monde qui est fait de tous les yeux de devins.

Ce que j'appelle désespoir, philosophiquement, est très proche de ce que Freud, à sa façon et d'un autre point de vue, appelle le travail de deuil. Ce n'est pas du tout un travail de la tristesse ! Le but du deuil, c'est la joie.

You have not come back from hell with empty hands.

Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.

Bet kai tik kieno nors žvilgsnis, šypsena, sakinys, gestas atkreipia m?s? d?mes?, m?s? vaizduot?, nepaisydama valios, jau ir ima ?žvelgti anapus j? slypin?ias galimybes. Šit moteris mums dav? dingst? - nors ir menk? - tik?tis.

Parfois, il est vrai, le coeur veut crever de chagrin. Mais souvent aussi, le soir de préférence, je ne puis m'empêcher de penser qu'Ernie Levy, mort six millions de fois, est encore vivant, quelque part, je ne sais où... Hier, comme je tremblais de désespoir au milieu de la rue, cloué au sol, une goutte de pitié tomba d'en haut sur mon visage; mais il n'y avait nul souffle dans l'air, aucun nuage dans le ciel... il n'y avait qu'une présence.

How lovely it is to dream while you are awake. Dream while you're awake, Andre. Anybody can dream while they're asleep, but you need to dream all the time, and say our dreams out loud, and believe in them.

Soon the pain felt wonderful, almost sweet, because it was the kind that you can tell precedes relief. But maybe all pain is like that.

We're in a fight, and you can count on me until the last man is standing. Somewhere up there is a star with your name on it. I might not be able to help you find it, but I've got pretty strong shoulders, and you can stand on my shoulders while you're looking for that star. You hear? For as long as you want. Stand on my shoulders and reach, man. Reach.

Qué lindo es sonar despierto, he says. How lovely it is to dream while you are awake. Dream while you are awake, Andre. Anybody can dream while they're asleep, but you need to dream all the time, and say your dreams out loud, and believe in them. In other words, when in the final of a slam, I must dream. I must play to win.

Dat's what they say of this cauntry back home, Kath: 'America, the land of milk and honey.' Bot they never tell you the milk's gone sour and the honey's stolen.

joy was something she willed herself to show us, something she raised from deep inside herself as a promise for what could be. Now her life seemed to have opened up into it as if it had been waiting for her. (215)

this I know of life's difficult times: there is always a time for them to begin and a time for them to end, and the man who knows this knows he must thank God for each day he has suffered because that is always one day closer to the sun, the real sun.

Soraya-joon, I have done all that I could. Do not be sorry for us. Your mother and I await you upon your return. We love you more than we have loved life. After your dear brother name your first son. Live here if you like, but if you sell it take no less than one hundred thousand dollars. ~Bawbaw

Solitude is bearable only with God

I'm an un-healable positive optimist.

Por que el que ha de venir vendrá. Si no el amor no es más que un vaso de agua apurado rápidamente.

TotuÈ™i, asta e viaÈ›a: ceea ce ne dorim din tot sufletul se întâmpl? adesea sub forma de care ne temem cel mai mult.

Everyone wants a world without sadness, but you can't have a rainbow without a little rain.

If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You have another chance.

A positive vision is what keeps us going despite the misfortunes and setbacks that fill our lives. The sole disadvantage is that it stops us to seeing evil.

Lo so come ti senti. È come essere dietro un vetro, non puoi toccare niente di quello che vedi. Ho passato tre quarti della mia vita chiuso fuori, finché ho capito che l'unico modo è romperlo. E se hai paura di farti male, prova a immaginarti di essere già vecchio e quasi morto, pieno di rimpianti.

Like a white knight in a station wagon, he drove out of her life.

It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy. ~Jane Fonda